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Interesting Links for 21-01-2026
Jan. 21st, 2026 12:00 pm- 1. Bid for massive AI-generated Glasgow mural given green light
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- 2. Alternate universe in which Trump is a Russian asset is otherwise absolutely identical to this one
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- 3. A fascinating speech by Mark Carney, PM of Canada on how the world is changing
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- 4. EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification after Trump's tariff threats over Greenland
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Thoughts on the way home.
Nov. 1st, 2025 05:43 pmGlasgow still feels much more city-like to me than Edinburgh.
Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.
(Great to visit though)
Which is probably why I prefer living in Edinburgh.
(Great to visit though)
Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
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- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
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- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
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- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
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Interesting Links for 01-05-2025
May. 1st, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite
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- 2. Council Tax is broken - It's time to fix it
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- 3. A Criminal, Social, And Linguistic Rollercoaster (and a historical mugging in Glasgow)
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- 4. Solar panels on (nearly) all new UK homes by 2027 under new Labour plan
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- 5. US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store
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- 6. Ukraine agrees crucial minerals and economic investment deal with US
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- 7. Brexit led to 1,500 deaths a year as EU nurses left UK
- (tags:uk europe healthcare nhs death OhForFucksSake )
- 8. How Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used 'any means necessary' to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.
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- 9. A robot that can fold laundry! (This is actually massive - handling flexible/floppy fabrics is incredibly hard)
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2025
Jan. 6th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Dell barred employees from promotion unless they returned to the office. More than half of them stayed at home anyway.
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- 2. Elon Musk Is Posting Nonstop Falsehoods About 'Grooming Gangs'
- (tags:ElonMusk lies islam rape uk politics )
- 3. The UK's first official consumption room for illegal drugs including heroin and cocaine will open in Glasgow later this month
- (tags:glasgow scotland drugs heroin cocaine safety uk GoodNews )
- 4. Government unveils plan to reduce NHS England waiting list backlog
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Interesting Links for 16-10-2024
Oct. 16th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban
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- 2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.
- (tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
- 3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question
- (tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
- 4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers
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- 5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?
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- 6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV
- (tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
- 7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.
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- 8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond
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- 9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?
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- 10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.
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- 11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains
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Interesting Links for 08-08-2024
Aug. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. In 1997, the minimum age for women gymnasts was raised to 16. Some thought it would usher in a less competitive era. Instead, athletes of incredible skill and longevity emerged.
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- 2. Republicans are pro-cancer
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- 3. An injection every 6 months completely prevents HIV
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- 4. On October 23rd 1911 400 guests sat down to the world's first 'Cold-Storage Banquet'
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- 5. What would a move to a Canadian-style pensions model for the UK's local government schemes look like?
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- 6. Worldcon arrives in Glasgow (I wish I could go. Hopefully next time around!)
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Interesting Links for 23-04-2024
Apr. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How to stop a teenage girl from playing Warhammer (and then, several years later, how to invite her in)
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- 2. Doctor Who: If Not Gallifrey, Where IS the Doctor From?
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- 3. Increasingly irregular seasons caused by changes in earth's tilt drove the rise of agriculture
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- 4. The Cass Review absolutely did ignore almost all evidence on the efficacy & safety of puberty blockers and hormones
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- 5. Glasgow - Edinburgh trains: We need another station on the main line
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- 6. Animation companies are unwittingly subcontracting to North Korea
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2024
Jan. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UNRWA fires several employees over alleged involvement in Hamas attack on Oct. 7
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- 2. Glasglow Worldcon Commits to Hugo Process Transparency
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- 3. Edinburgh crime: Police investigating reported rape of woman in Abbeyhill area say it 'did not take place'
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Interesting Links for 01-02-2023
Feb. 1st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. What attracts marginalised people to Lovecraft?
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- 2. Intel Cuts Pay For Employees To Keep Their Quarterly Dividend (I can't think of a better way of getting rid of competent staff)
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- 3. Replacing workers with AI? Don't forget the retraining fees
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- 4. New Edinburgh and Glasgow street layouts are still unsafe
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- 5. Octopus Energy's Our approach to prepayment meters
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Interesting Links for 23-12-2022
Dec. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Glaswegian who invented chicken tikka masala dies
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- 2. Gender reform bill to make it easier for transgender people to self-identify passes in Scotland
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- 3. Large swathes of English people use "English" and "British" interchangeably
- (tags:UK nationality England britain viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Mastodon is hurtling toward a tipping point
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- 5. A look behind the scenes at how Scotland finally passed a Gender Recognition Reform Act, and how the Tories, knowing they would fail to vote it down, tried to filibuster it.
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- 6. The law of participation inequality (that the vast majority of users of a social network read, but don't interact, some interact a bit, a tiny number provide most content)
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- 7. Spain approves self-id transgender bill
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- 8. Strange, tentacled microbe may resemble ancestor of complex life
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Interesting Links for 09-12-2022
Dec. 9th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh tram line extension to Musselburgh and 12-route Clyde Metro in new transport blueprint
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- 2. UK coal mine approval: Is this the worst ever climate policy decision?
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- 3. US campaign group sues Smithsonian over return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
- (tags:Nigeria museums slavery usa theft history viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. UK debt advisors are being worked so hard they can't actually help anyone
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Interesting Links for 08-11-2022
Nov. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Learning people's favourite dance steps. (this made me grin all the way through)
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- 2. Centrist Advocates Moderate Approach To Genocide
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- 3. Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows
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- 4. Seven Toothbrush Army, by the Device Orchestra
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- 5. Greens publish vision for Scottish independence
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- 6. How the myth of tanks in Glasgow's Battle Of George Squre in 1919 has spread
- (tags:history uk glasgow myths viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. A brief history of punctuation marks
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Interesting Links for 22-09-2022
Sep. 22nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Russia has lost the capacity to mobilise
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- 2. An Open Letter to Bluey's Parents: Please Stop
- We have totally had to play Heavy on many occasions.
(tags:parenting dogs viaSwampers animation funny ) - 3. Mountain Goats Are Being Airlifted Out of a National Park Because They Crave Human Pee
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- 4. Artist finds private medical record photos in popular AI training data set
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- 5. Just how long have men and women been switching gender roles for?
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- 6. Far too much fun in the snow in Northern China
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- 7. Glasgow students without flats told to consider quitting university
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- 8. Tucker Carlson accuses schools and hospitals of "sex crimes" and tells viewers they have a moral duty to dole out "instant justice" "no matter what the law says"
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- 9. The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality
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- 10. US installs record solar capacity as prices keep falling
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- 11. $500,000,000 in funding, 10 years in development, and Star Citizen still doesn't have a release date
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- 12. For the first time the British Social Attitudes Survey shows a majority for proportional representation
- (tags:reform elections voting proportional_representation UK )
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Interesting Links for 26-07-2022
Jul. 26th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Rachel Reeves confirms Labour has scrapped its commitment to public ownership of water, energy and railways
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- 2. A review of pumped hydro energy storage
- (tags:water storage viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. UK to host next year's Eurovision (I hope it's at the SSE Hydro in Edinburgh)
- (tags:uk glasgow edinburgh eurovision ukraine viaLizzieCassMaran )
- 4. The Met Police didn't actually send Johnson questionnaires before deciding not to fine him
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- 5. Can anyone explain to me what a "Distinctly British Economic Growth Plan" might be? Other than "having an empire"
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- 6. How to think about task estimation
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2022
Jan. 23rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Majority believe MPs who switch parties should fight by-election (63:17) - I entirely disagree
- Individual representatives need a nuclear option if they believe that their party is no longer functional, whether that be joining an existing party or forming a new one. Party central offices already have too much power.
(tags:politics UK ) - The Guardian says that working class people can't be good looking
- (tags:attraction class guardian OhForFucksSake )
- In pictures: Glasgow goes Gotham for Batgirl filming
- (tags:batman comics movies Glasgow Scotland )
- Cats just want a human to curl up on. Even big cats.
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- What have the Democrats achieved in the last year?
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- The BBC thinks that what we need is more antivaxxer nonsense
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- UK warns of plot to install pro-Moscow ally in Ukraine
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- Tory MP says she was sacked as minister because her Muslim faith made colleagues uncomfortable
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- LGBT BBC staff past and present debate whether it's is even worth saving
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Interesting Links for 21-01-2022
Jan. 21st, 2022 12:00 pm- Tory whips threatened to cancel new school if I didn't vote the right way, says MP
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- Archaeologists Unearth 4,000-Year-Old Stone Board Game in Oman
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- Fraggle Rock on Apple TV+ is the Muppet series Disney+ wishes it had
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- Glasgow Clyde Metro set for go-ahead as headline project in SNP strategy for transport in Scotland
- (tags:scotland transport glasgow viaDanielDWilliam )
- Reports from the Indiana Jones cleanup team
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Interesting Links for 06-06-2021
Jun. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Scotland's first waste-to-hydrogen facility to be built beside the Clyde
- (tags:Glasgow plastic waste hydrogen viaDanielDWilliam )
- G7: Rich nations back deal to tax multinationals, set global rate of corporation tax
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- Companies must commit to net-zero emissions before bidding for large UK government contracts
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- Watchdog supposed to scrutinise Australia trade deal still won't exist when deal is signed
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- Why Are There So Few Women in Wargaming?
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- Explainer: What is a global minimum tax and what will it mean?
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- Big majority of Britons worried about Boris Johnson's plan to lift all Covid restrictions
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- I love how it's possible for people who have never even met, and don't have any awareness of each others existence, to nevertheless collaborate with each other through the medium of cats
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- El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender
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- The Ness of Brodgar Excavation Information Panels Are Online!
- (tags:archeology Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
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